My occasional technical diary of thoughts, tips, and tools from some of the more interesting things I'm playing around with at the time. That means all things Cloud, Open Source, Rails, BigData, Mobile, or just my latest rant.. who knows!

Monday, October 29, 2007

Blogging as RWT (Remedial Writing Therapy)

A collegue of mine said I must have a case of blog-addiction since I'm maintaining two personal blogs - tardate and pratalife - as well as a group internal blog. So of course, how could I respond other than by blogging about it? ;-)

For me, the motivation to blog actually stems from a recognition that after 20 years of a technical consulting career I find myself with a kind of literary disability! I've been trained too well to think and write like this:

Focus on story-line, experiment with techniques for getting a message across

Cover wider range of topics and subject matter

Form of Remedial Writing Therapy (RWT)

Benefits

Rediscover vocabulary

Build story-telling skills

Rekindle interest in broader range of intellectual pursuits

Even with a small audience, some chance of feedback

Not in scope

Won't help learning how to use a real pen again!

So is it working? I think so. The first effect I noticed is an almost immediate improvement in my ability to sit down with a topic, get into a flow and quickly produce a finished piece. Remember essay writing at school? Yes, like that.

I will leave you to be the judge of whether what I have to say makes any sense or is of any interest!

1 comment:

Quite true. Blogging does get you some sort of focus on your thoughts. Otherwise all this random thoughts are bound to get lost in the abyss. Atleast it makes you chronicle some of your ideas, which might be helpful for the community out there.